A house that recently sold for almost $3 million has immediately hit the market to rent for a princely sum despite its less-than-regal condition.
The property on Sydney’s north shore is available to rent for $700 per week, or $800 per week, depending on whether you look on a property site or for tour details on YouTube.
It’s clearly being marketed as a fixer upper, doesn’t look like much was done to it before the photos and video showing mold and a weird ‘third bedroom/study’ with random bits of wooden planks were loaded online.
The property’s house number is listed as
The photos clearly show mold in a bedroom and in the kitchen, but strangely there are no photos of the bathroom.
However, in the video, the rental agent shows the bedroom and says it has been recently painted.
The mold is no longer visible, but it does not say whether it has been treated or simply painted over.
He also doesn’t say why the pre-paint job photo was the only one used on the rental site.
When the video goes into the bathroom it becomes clear why no photos of it were used on the property’s website – there is mold there too and it clearly hasn’t been painted over.
This photo shows a bedroom with mold in it, but the owner wants up to $800 a week in rent for the house
A bizarre ‘third bedroom or study’ (pictured) has random bits of wooden planks
The kitchen photo shows what may be mold or smoke stains, or possibly both, but nothing compares to the bizarre room described as a third bedroom or a study.
But given the very strange mess of wooden structures inside – which seem to block access to the window and blinds – it wouldn’t be of much use to either.
It looks like it was previously used for a raised overhead bed, or maybe that was the plan and whoever did it just gave up.
It is also unlikely that the rear of the property, with its disheveled and untidy appearance, will tempt anyone into thinking: ‘I have to have this property, this is the property I have been dreaming of.’
Online commenters were unimpressed with the property, with one writing that it ‘stinks like’ we’re going to tear this down and rebuild, but we’ll be renting it out until then.
Another commented on the third bedroom/study, saying, “That guillotine room has convinced me that this is a conceptual work of art because there is no way that this is a real room of a real house meant to be lived in.” ‘
The home’s kitchen (pictured) also shows mold or smoke stains, or possibly both
The bathroom was not in photos on any real estate site, but was included in a YouTube video. The reason no photo is included may be due to the mold (pictured)
Some commenters were restricted from using profanity, with one writing: ‘That’s absolutely f*****. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, maybe both.’
The NSW government’s housing website states: ‘Landlords, agents and tenants have a responsibility to report and resolve mold problems in a rental property.
‘Mold is linked to respiratory diseases and can cause serious health problems.’
The owners spent $2.91 million to buy the Lane Cove West property, but may have had nothing left to do up the spruce up.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted the rental agent for comment.